Sam Elliott

7.5	Listal rating

Stats

Birth Name: Samuel Pack Elliott

Age: 68, born 9 August 1944

Country of origin: United States

Height: 6' 2"

Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Katharine Ross

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About: Elliott began his career as a character actor; his appearance, voice and bearing were ideally suited to Westerns. One of his first film roles was as 'Card Player #2' in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). In 1970-71, Sam Elliott starred as Doug Robert in the hit TV series Mission: Impossible, and played the lead character Sam Damon in Once an Eagle, an NBC miniseries during the 1976-77 season. He also had the starring role as Rick Carlson in the summer sleeper, Lifeguard ( Elliott began his career as a character actor; his appearance, voice and bearing were ideally suited to Westerns. One of his first film roles was as 'Card Player #2' in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).

In 1970-71, Sam Elliott starred as Doug Robert in the hit TV series Mission: Impossible, and played the lead character Sam Damon in Once an Eagle, an NBC miniseries during the 1976-77 season. He also had the starring role as Rick Carlson in the summer sleeper, Lifeguard (1976). In 1979, he played the oldest brother in the made-for-TV miniseries The Sacketts, also starring Tom Selleck, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, Glenn Ford, Ruth Roman, Mercedes McCambridge, Jack Elam, and Gilbert Roland, among others. He later played a wife killer in the miniseries Murder in Texas (1981) and A Death in California (1985). Elliott's breakthrough came with his supporting role in Mask (1985) when he co-starred with Cher. He has made guest appearances on shows such as Felony Squad, Gunsmoke, Lancer and Hawaii Five-O and has been featured in many TV movies, including "Prancer" (1989) and Buffalo Girls (1995) in which he played Wild Bill Hickok. He has also starred in Road House (1989) with Patrick Swayze and played Virgil Earp in Tombstone (1993), which starred Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer. In 1998, Elliot was named the grand marshal of the Calgary Stampede parade and rode in the procession before 300,000 spectators.

Elliott co-starred in We Were Soldiers, which is based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… And Young, portraying Sgt. Maj. Basil L. Plumley. He also played General John Buford in the 1993 film Gettysburg.

Elliott played "The Stranger", a character narrating the story of The Big Lebowski (1998). In 2005 he appeared in Thank You For Smoking where he played a former Marlboro Man advertisement cowboy who has developed lung-cancer. Elliot joined Nicolas Cage in 2007 in the popular Ghost Rider, and stood out in another film the same year, in The Golden Compass as a key character, Lee Scoresby. In 2009, Elliott had a small role in Up In The Air in which he portrayed the Captain of an American Airlines jet.

Elliott has performed voice-over narration for various commercials. He has lent his voice to campaigns for Dodge, IBM, Kinney Drugs, Union Pacific, and, most notably, the American Beef Council, succeeding Robert Mitchum in the latter. Since late 2007, Elliott has done voice-overs for Coors beer, bringing his deep, rich voice and "western" appeal to the brand brewed in Colorado. In 2010, Dodge hired Elliott to do the voice-over for their Ram Heavy Duty truck commercial. He is also the new voice for Smokey Bear ("Only YOU can prevent wildfires"). Coincidentally, Elliott and "Smokey" share the same birthday (the U.S. Forest Service recognizes this as Smokey's "birthdate"). He lent his voice to "Buster" (a.k.a. Chupadogra) in Marmaduke (2010). He also narrated the opening of the Super Bowl introductions, in 2011 Super Bowl in Arlington, Texas. He has a supporting role in the forthcoming film The Company You Keep.
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American (3), Actor (2), Barnyard (2), Hulk (2), The Golden Compass (2), Male (1), Mission: Impossible (1), Moustache (1), Western Actor (1), Sexy (1), Lead Actor (1), Road House (1), Supporting Actor (1), We Were Soldiers (1), 2010s (1), Tombstone (1), 2000s (1), Hero (1), 1990s (1), Greatest Moustache Of All Time (1)

Movies

1. The Big Lebowski (1998)

Rating:

7.9

2870 Watched

2. Hulk (2003)

Rating:

5.1

2068 Watched

3. Thank You for Smoking (2005)

Rating:

7.1

1574 Watched

4. Up in the Air (2009)

Rating:

7.2

1510 Watched

5. Ghost Rider (2007)

Rating:

5.2

1606 Watched

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TV

1. Mission: Impossible (1966)

Rating:

6.9

154 Watched

2. The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)

Rating:

7.5

157 Watched

3. Fail Safe (2000)

Rating:

7.2

14 Watched

4. The Quick and the Dead (1987)

Rating:

8.2

7 Watched

5. The Shadow Riders (1982)

Rating:

6.8

6 Watched

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TV written by

1. Conagher (1991)

Rating:

2 Watched

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